National fall protests needed to halt U.S. war on Nicaragua
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Berkeley students fight apantheid Hundreds of protesting students and supporters have been arrested at UC Berkeley since sit-ins to demand divestment of university funds from companies doing business in South Africa first began in mid-April.
On May 13, just before final exams, approximately 15,000 students turned out to hear South African Nobel Prize winner Bishop Tutu.
Over 2500 Berkeley students marched to the Board of Regents meeting on May 16 to demand full divestment of UC funds from South Africa.
The students have vowed to continue their protests in the fall semester the regents decline to vote for full divestment at their June 25 meeting.
A qualitative escalation in the U.S. war against Nicaragua occurred on May 7 with the decision by the Reagan administration—with the support of the Democrats in Congress-to impose a trade embargo on that country.
Key Democratic Party leaders, who two weeks earlier had blocked the $14 million in aid to the contras seeking to overthrow the Sandinista government, seized on Daniel Ortega's visit to the Soviet Union to urge economic sanctions against Nicaragua.
As we go to press, reports from Washington indicate that Congress is expected to approve aid to the contras within the next few weeks. On May 21 Reagan declared that a "bipartisan consensus" now existed in favor of such aid.
House Speaker Thomas (Tip) O'Neill, D-Mass., and most other Democrats said they would support financing for the contras, provided the funds were used for "non-military purposes.
A Democratic congressman was quoted as saying, "It's clear that some kind of aid is going to win."
Reagan announced that he will be seeking $42 million for the contras under a defense authorization bill. If approved, the contras would receive funds for fiscal year 1986, as well as for the remaining four months of the current fiscal year.
The bipartisan war on Nicaragua has (continued on page 8, in “Dead Than”)
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